Rebecca Mitchell, Author at Virtual-DBA Remote DBA Services & Support - Certified Database Experts Remote Database Administration Wed, 19 Nov 2025 14:45:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://virtual-dba.com/wp-content/uploads/cropped-VirtualDBA-favicon-32x32.png Rebecca Mitchell, Author at Virtual-DBA Remote DBA Services & Support - Certified Database Experts 32 32 Query Store: SQL Server’s Built-In Time Machine https://virtual-dba.com/blog/query-store-sql-servers-built-in-time-machine/ Tue, 06 May 2025 16:41:47 +0000 https://virtual-dba.com/?p=242860 SUMMARY: Since its debut in 2016, SQL Server Query Store has gained critical features such as wait statistics and automatic plan correction, evolving from a simple logging tool into an adaptive performance tuning partner that minimizes rogue query performance issues across both on-premise and Azure SQL environments. Organizations still relying on older versions of SQL […]

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]]> SQL Query Plan Karaoke https://virtual-dba.com/blog/sql-query-plan-karaoke/ https://virtual-dba.com/blog/sql-query-plan-karaoke/#respond Fri, 18 Dec 2020 21:36:49 +0000 https://virtual-dba.com/?p=38313 Because even DBAs need a little holiday humor, and we all know how SQL query plans can go.

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]]> https://virtual-dba.com/blog/sql-query-plan-karaoke/feed/ 0 SQL Server 2019: Top 5 New and Exciting Features https://virtual-dba.com/blog/sql-server-2019-top-5-new-features/ https://virtual-dba.com/blog/sql-server-2019-top-5-new-features/#respond Fri, 08 Nov 2019 20:57:55 +0000 https://virtual-dba.com/?p=36677 With the release of SQL Server 2019 comes many new and exciting features, we can’t wait to share the ones that made our top five list! Overall there were vast improvements in the database engine, security, database recovery, and several other areas. TempDB bottlenecks got you down? Tired of long database recovery times because you’re […]

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